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Nanomaterials Characterization Facility
Nanomaterials Characterization Facility



The Nanomaterials Characterization Facility (NCF) at CU-Boulder is a facility to both educate students and avail itself to a community of top-notch researchers from academia, government labs, and industry representing a variety of disciplines. Our current instruments provide the latest-cutting edge technology allowing fabrication, characterization, imaging and probing of structures and materials on the nanoscale in multiple environments. The facility provides:

  1. affordable access to our state-of-the-art instruments
  2. personalized training on operation of instruments by our experienced staff
  3. on line user-scheduled instrument reservations on a first-come, first serve basis
  4. a gateway to an expanding CU wide network of nano instrumentation and services
Sneaky Nanotech: Nanotubes and Nanowires ‘fool’ your body into growing bone where doctors want it

At CSU Dr. Ketul Popat sees a future where severely fractured bones and mangled joints are allowed to heal themselves, with nanotechnology as their guide.


Nanotechnology in Nature: Ancient Algae Hints at Earth’s Past, Nanotechnology’s Future

Shaped like a WWII bunker, just a few microns across, and created by single-celled algae, the silica shells of diatoms are telling scientists about Earth's past, and perhaps humankind's technological future.


Star Trek-like Medical Scanner Coming from NIST

Researchers at that National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder have adapted technology developed for atomic clocks to create a chip-scale magnetometer -- a device that, if perfected, could make battlefield MRI scanning devices, tiny bomb-detection systems or more advanced and affordable geologic surveying tools possible.


Communicating Nanotech to the Public

With "nanotechnology" on T.V., in the movies and in the news, knowledge of existing nanotech remains sparse and often focused on the strange or outlandish.


Smallest Science Becoming Big Industry

Nanotechnology is a rapidly growing industry, with two dozen companies in Colorado already producing nanoproducts. A number of local companies are working on groundbreaking products in a wide variety of fields. But are there unknown risks facing these companies? Are there safety risks to the public or environment? And are some of the more controversial "nano-products" on the market really nanotechnology at all?



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Spring 2009 Photo Contest Winners
Lauren Schrader on 6/30/2009 at 09:54:11 AM
Congratulations to Evan Thomas (LVSEM), Joe Brown (FIB), and Idalis Villanueva (CLSM) as the winners of the Spring 2009 photo contest. Entries are being accepted for Summer 2009 starting July 1st!!


Need supplies?
Kathy Schrader on 4/7/2009 at 11:18:43 AM
The NCF now stocks some supplies. Please see our stockroom supply list located on the pricing page within the Instruments menu. You can order supplies by sending email to ncf@colorado.edu.





Low Vacuum Scanning Electron Microscope (LVSEM)
Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope(FESEM)
Focused Ion Beam(FIB)
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope (CLSM)
Thermal XP Indenter(NI)
XP/DCM Indenter(NI)
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